Kerry 'confident' on Iran deal after US Senate compromise

US Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday welcomed a compromise with Congress on giving lawmakers a say on any final deal on Iran’s nuclear programme, with negotiations set to resume next week. Kerry said the measure approved Tuesday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which raises the threshold for critics in Congress to block any accord with Tehran, made him “confident” ahead of a June 30 deadline. “Yesterday there was a compromise reached in Washington regarding congressional input,” he told reporters at a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Germany.